1958

1958 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, LAFAYETTE HOTEL, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 10-12,1958

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958
10:00—1:14 pm – Registration
2:00—4:15 – Afternoon session

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958
9:30—11:45 am – Morning session
1:30—3:45 pm – Afternoon session
6:30—9:00 – Evening session

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1958
9:00—11:45 am – Morning session

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958

AFTERNOON SESSION

SESSION I

Chair: Robert A. Nisbet, Univ. of California, Riverside

Discussants: Ralph H. Turner, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Charles E. Woodhouse, Univ. of California, Riverside

Richard H. Ogles, State College of Washington: Another Theoretical Critique of the Concept of Culture

Ritchie P. Lowry, Chico State College: A Continuum Classification of Human Groups

William R. Catton, Jr., Univ. of Washington: Is There a Strain Toward Consistency in American Culture?

Mervyn L. Cadwallader, San Jose State College: Three Classes of Social Change

SESSION II

Chair: Orrin E. Klapp, San Diego State College

Discussants: Alvin H. Scaff, Pomona College; Charles B. Spaulding, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

William G. Dyer, Brigham Young Univ.: Labor Mobility and Industrialization in a Utah County

Ralph R. Ireland, Univ. of Arizona: The Role of Economic Motivation in Ethnic Relations

Amitai Etzioni, Univ. of California Berkeley: The Foreman as an Industrial Leader

Aaron V. Cicourel, Univ. of California Medical Center, Los Angeles: The Front and Back of Organizational Leadership

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958

MORNING SESSION

SESSION I

Chair: Carlo L. Lastrucci, San Francisco State College

Discussant: Richard J. Hill, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Joseph B. Ford, Los Angeles State College: Case Histories in Historical Perspective: Urban Sociology

William R. Larson, Univ. of Washington: Social Desirability as a Latent Variable in Medical Questionnaires

James Pride, Univ. of Oregon: Continuity in Social Research: TVA and the Grass Roots

Wilson Record, Sacramento State College: The Institutionalization of Inquiry

SESSION II

Chair: Aubrey Wendling, San Diego State College

Discussant: Heinz J. Graalfs, San Jose State College

Joel B. Montague and Edgar G. Epps, State College of Washington: Attitudes toward Social Mobility as Revealed by Samples of Negro and White Boys

Betty Jones, Whittier College: A Motivational Analysis of ‘The Nixon Papers’

Leonard D. Cain, Jr., Sacramento State College: A Re-Examination of the Function of the Myth Concept in Social Movements

Alvin P. Bradford, Humboldt State College: A Typology of Agitators

AFTERNOON SESSION

SESSION I

Chair: Donald R. Cressey, University of California L.A.

Discussants: Harold Garfinkel, Univ. of California, L.A.; Jack P. Gibbs, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Joseph W. Eaton, Univ. of California, L.A.: Evaluative Research: Some Special Problems of Methodology

Benton Johnson, Univ. of Oregon: Counseling and Psychotherapeutic Programs in Protestantism: A Sociological Perspective

Kenneth Polk, University of California, L.A. : Social Areas and Suicide

James F. Short, Jr., State College of Washington: Differential Association with Delinquent Friends and Delinquent Behavior

SESSION II

Chair: Leo G. Reeder, Univ. of California Medical Center, L.A.
This session dealt with Medical Sociology

PRESIDENTAL ADDRESS, EVENING SESSION

Presiding: David S. Milne, San Diego State College

John M. Foskett, Univ. of Oregon: The Westward Movement of Sociology

Remarks: Frank Miyamoto, Univ. of Washington

SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1958

MORNING SESSION

SESSION I

Chair: Theodore B. Johannis, Jr., Univ. of Oregon

Discussants: Otto N. Larsen, Univ. of Washington: Svend Riemer, Univ. of California L.A.

Morris J. Daniels, San Diego State College: The Dynamics of Role

Stanton B. Towner, Linfield College: Motivation and Satisfaction in a Humanitarian Role

Robert L. James, Univ. of Alberta: The Developmental Task Concept in the Field of Family Sociology

F. Ivan Nye, State College of Washington: Visiting and Recreational Behavior of Employed Mothers

Charles W. Hobart, Univ. of Redlands: Emancipation from Parents and Courtship in Adolescents

SESSION II

Chair: Edmund H. Volkart, Stanford University

Discussant: Edwin M. Lemert, Univ. of California, Davis

Dennie L. Briggs: Social Processes in a Therapeutic Community

Norman S. Hayner, Univ. of Washington: Why Do Parole Boards Lag in the Use of Prediction Scores?

John Kitsuse, San Diego State College: The Delinquent Subculture: An Alternative Interpretations